| Stars and Stellar Evolution | |||
| Name | Title | Contact Info | Research |
| Joe Patterson | Professor | jop @ astro | structure and evolution of close binary stars; accretion disks |
| Arlin Crotts | Professor | arlin @ astro | variable stars and stellar populations, particularly in M31 |
| Mordecai-Mark Mac Low | Adj. Assoc. Professor | mordecai @ amnh.org | primordial and modern star formation |
| Ben Oppenheimer | Adj. Asst. Professor | bro @ amnh.org | brown dwarfs, extremely cool white dwarfs, halo populations |
| Karen Vanlandingham | Asst. Professor | kvanland @ astro | nucleosynthesis in novae outbursts, evolution of pre-cataclysmic variables |
| Kristen Menou | Asst. Professor | kristen @ astro | turbulence and transport in radiative zones; Compact objects |
| Philip Yecko | Asst. Professor | phil @ astro | convection in pulsating stars |
| Daniel Wolf Savin | Research Scientist | savin @ astro | laboratory measurements of ionization and recombination processes for modeling stellar atmospheres and stellar winds |
| Marc Audard | Assoc. Res. Sci. | audard @ astro | magnetic activity; star formation; brown dwarfs; X-rays |
| Stuart Gill | Post-doc | sgill @ astro | globular clusters |
| Maurice Leutenegger | Graduate Student | maurice @ astro | X-ray spectroscopy of OB and WR stars |
| Andrew J. Fleming | Graduate Student | andrew @ astro | binary star evolution, common Envelope interactions, post-AGB evolution |
Gamma-ray Sources | |||
| Name | Title | Contact Info | Research |
| Reshmi Mukherjee | Assoc. Professor | muk @ astro | study of the high energy unidentified gamma-ray sources, study of gamma-ray blazars, extragalactic gamma-ray background |
| Jason Koglin | Research Scientist | koglin @ astro | Hard X-rays -- Build hard X-ray optics for balloon and satellite missions; supernova remnants; active galactic nuclei |
| Eric Gotthelf | Research Scientist | evg @ astro | X-ray observations of unidentified EGRET gamma-ray sources |
| Fernando Camilo | Research Scientist | fernando @ astro | EGRET source identification via pulsar searches |
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Pulsars, Neutron Stars, Supernovae | |||
| Name | Title | Contact Info | Research |
| Joe Patterson | Professor | jop @ astro | radiation processes near compact Stars |
| David J. Helfand | Professor | djh @ astro | neutron star cooling; pulsar wind nebulae |
| Arlin Crotts | Professor | arlin @ astro | supernova light echoes to map circumstellar and interstellar structure; formation of Supernova Remnant 1987A, SN 1987A shock breakout |
| Frits Paerels | Assoc. Professor | frits @ astro | photospheric spectroscopy of neutron stars; accreting neutron stars |
| Mordecai-Mark Mac Low | Adj. Assoc. Professor | mordecai @ amnh.org | effects of supernovae on the ISM |
| Fernando Camilo | Research Scientist | fernando @ astro | young pulsars in SNRs; pulsar wind nebulae; old pulsars in globular clusters |
| Eric Gotthelf | Research Scientist | evg @ astro | Study of X-ray emission from young pulsars and their wind nebulae, Supernova Remnants, and the Magnetars --- Anomalous X-ray Pulsars, Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters, Central Compact Objects |
| Daniel Wolf Savin | Research Scientist | savin @ astro | laboratory measurements of electron impact ionization data for modeling supernovae |
| Franz Bauer | Post-doc | feb @ astro | young supernovae and ultraluminous X-ray sources in nearby galaxies |
| Jennifer Donovan | Graduate Student | jen @ astro | searching for young pulsars in SNRs, detecting optical companions to millisecond pulsars, correlating pulsar emission |
| Gisela Angela Telis | Research Assistant | morronga @ astro | neutron star spectroscopy and atmosphere models; Type Ia supernovae, their progenitors and Type Ia cosmology |
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Active Galactic Nuclei | |||
| Name | Title | Research | |
| David J. Helfand | Professor | djh @ astro | hard X-ray source identification; highly reddened quasars; radio loud/quiet dichotomy |
| Reshmi Mukherjee | Assoc. Professor | muk @ astro | gamma-ray studies, blazars, AGN detected at GeV and TeV energies, spectral cut-offs in blazars due to the extragalactic background light |
| Zoltan Haiman | Asst. Professor | zoltan @ astro | Formation of supermassive black holes, cosmic evolution of quasar and galaxy populations, formation of the first AGN |
| Kristen Menou | Asst. Professor | kristen @ astro | Structure and properties of accretion disks; Supermassive black hole coalescences |
| Daniel Wolf Savin | Research Scientist | savin @ astro | laboratory measurements of dielectronic recombination and charge transfer data for modeling AGN |
| Robin Herrnstein | Post-doc | herrnstein @ astro | Impact of supernovae on molecular gas - impact of Sgr A East and G359.1-0.5 on dense molecular gas as traced in NH3 spectral lines at 23-25 GHz |
| Franz Bauer | Post-doc | feb @ astro | source identification of deep X-ray surveys; evolution of black hole/bulge growth; obscured AGN; Quasar and Seyfert spectral energy distributions |
| Eilat Glikman | Graduate Student | eilatg @ astro | surveys for AGN; highly reddened quasars; radio loud/quiet dichotomy |
| Suvi Gezari | Graduate Student | suvi @ astro | optical spectroscopy; long-term monitoring of double-peaked Balmer lines; dynamics and structure of the accretion disk; mass of the central black hole |
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Surveys | |||
| Name | Title | Contact Info | Research |
| David J. Helfand | Professor | djh @ astro | FIRST radio survey of SDSS area; MAGPIS Galactic plane survey (VLA and XMM) |
| Arlin Crotts | Professor | arlin @ astro | cosmological surveys to study dark energy and dark matter |
| Amber Miller | Assoc. Professor | amber @ astro | SZ Survey with the SZA |
| Ben Oppenheimer | Adj. Asst. Professor | bro @ amnh.org | coronagraphic surveys of nearby stars |
| Karen Vanlandingham | Asst. Professor | kvanland @ astro | magnetic white dwarfs in the Solan Digital Sky Survey |
| David Schiminovich | Asst. Professor | ds @ astro | GALEX ultraviolet sky survey, HST/COSMOS survey |
| Fernando Camilo | Research Scientist | fernando @ astro | radio pulsar multibeam surveys at Arecibo (PALFA) and Parkes |
| Eric Gotthelf | Research Scientist | evg @ astro | Study of the Most Energetic Pulsars Known and their Emission Mechanism(s) |
| Pier-Stefano Corasaniti | Post-doc | pierste @ astro | Statistical Methods and Optimization |
| Marc Audard | Post-doc | audard @ astro | Taurus Molecular Cloud with XMM-Newton/Spitzer/CFHT |
| Franz Bauer | Post-doc | feb @ astro | Chandra Deep Fields; GOODS |
| Eilat Glikman | Graduate Student | eilatg @ astro | FIRST radio survey of SDSS area; 2MASS near-infrared all sky survey |
| Anthony Mroczkowski | Graduate Student | tony @ astro | SZ Survey with the SZA |
| Stephen Muchovej | Graduate Student | stephen @ astro | With SZA, will perform a blank sky galaxy cluster survey |
| Sarah Tuttle | Graduate Student | sarah @ astro | Galactic plane survey at 20cm (VLA) & mid-IR (MSX) radio surveys |
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Our Galaxy | |||
| Name | Title | Contact Info | Research |
| Mordecai-Mark Mac Low | Adj. Assoc. Professor | mordecai @ amnh.org | star formation, structure of the ISM |
| David Schiminovich | Asst. Professor | ds @ astro | Galactic halo and interstellar medium |
| Daniel Wolf Savin | Research Scientist | savin @ astro | laboratory measurements of atomic processes determining the ionization balance of the interstellar medium |
| Robin Herrnstein | Post-doc | herrnstein @ astro | Galactic Center - the dynamics and conditions in molecular clouds within 5 pc of the Galactic center |
| Jennifer Donovan | Graduate Student | jen @ astro | spectral line observations of the galactic center |
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Planetary Science | |||
| Name | Title | Contact Info | Research |
| Mordecai-Mark Mac Low | Adj. Assoc. Professor | mordecai @ amnh.org | planetary impacts, meteoritic chondrule formation |
| Lam Hui | Assoc. Professor | lhui @ astro | extrasolar planets |
| Michael Allison | Adj. Professor | mallison@giss.nasa.gov | jovian atmospheric dynamics, Titan meteorology, Cassini RADAR/radiometry, Huygens Doppler Wind Experiment |
| Ben Oppenheimer | Adj. Asst. Professor | bro @ amnh.org | exoplanets, exoplanet atmospheres, circumstellar debris disks |
| Dave Spiegel | Graduate Student | dave @ astro | atmospheric dynamics of gas giant planets; microlensing searches for extrasolar planets |
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Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies | |||
| Name | Title | Contact Info | Research |
| Jacqueline van Gorkom | Professor | jvangork @ astro | Fate of gas in merger remnants, HI survey of clusters in the local universe, HI survey of the Virgo Cluster |
| Frits Paerels | Assoc. Professor | frits @ astro | X-ray spectroscopy; cooling flows |
| Lam Hui | Assoc. Professor | lhui @ astro | galaxy formation |
| David Schiminovich | Asst. Professor | ds @ astro | formation and evolution of galaxies, star formation history, role of mergers and environments |
| Greg Bryan | Asst. Professor | gbryan @ astro | galaxy formation, simulations, interstellar medium, clusters as cosmological probes |
| Mordecai-Mark Mac Low | Adj. Assoc. Professor | mordecai @ amnh.org | starbursts; star formation in galaxies; galactic evolution; structure and dynamics of the ISM |
| Amber Miller | Assoc. Professor | amber @ astro | Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in clusters of galaxies |
| Caleb Scharf | Assoc. Res. Scientist, Adj. Asst. Prof. |
caleb @ astro | Cluster physics; X-ray surveys; High-redshift protoclusters/protogalaxies |
| Daniel Wolf Savin | Research Scientist | savin @ astro | laboratory measurements of ionization and recombination processes for modeling galaxies and clusters of galaxies |
| Franz Bauer | Post-doc | feb @ astro | characterization of moderate/high redshift X-ray clusters |
| Stuart Gill | Post-doc | sgill @ astro | cluster dynamics, galaxy formation |
| Benjamin Johnson | Graduate Student | bjohnson @ astro | Star formation in galaxies, effect of environment on galaxy evolution |
| Aeree Chung | Graduate Student | archung @ astro | Virgo HI Survey, Environmental Effects on Galaxy Evolution |
| Pietro Reviglio | Graduate Student | reviglio @ astro | star-formation tracers and their correlations (UV,radio,Halpha,FIR); the interplay of star-formation and AGN activity; multiwavelength observations of peculiar star-forming galaxies |
| Michel Zamojski | Graduate Student | michel @ astro | the evolution of galaxy morphology with redshift in relation to the star formation history of the universe |
| Anthony Mroczkowski | Graduate Student | tony @ astro | X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations |
| Dave Spiegel | Graduate Student | dave @ astro | X-ray and multiwavelength studies of galaxy groups, protoclusters, and clusters |
| Stephen Muchovej | Graduate Student | stephen @ astro | SZA (Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array) - a study on galaxy cluster evolution by studying the SZE towards clusters |
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Large Scale Structure and Cosmology | |||
| Name | Title | Contact Info | Research |
| Arlin Crotts | Professor | arlin @ astro | large scale structure traced by quasar absorption lines; dark energy effect on clustering in Lyman alpha forest |
| David Schiminovich | Asst. Professor | ds @ astro | physical state of the IGM and large scale distribution of galaxies |
| Mordecai-Mark Mac Low | Adj. Assoc. Professor | mordecai @ amnh.org | galaxy formation, galactic outflows |
| Zoltan Haiman | Asst. Professor | zoltan @ astro | galaxy clusters, cosmological parameter estimation, gravitational clustering, galaxy evolution, intergalactic medium |
| Greg Bryan | Asst. Professor | gbryan @ astro | N-body simulation, first star formation, cosmological probes |
| Frits Paerels | Assoc. Professor | frits @ astro | intergalactic medium, cluster surveys |
| Lam Hui | Assoc. Professor | lhui @ astro | inflation, early universe physics, large scale structure, dark energy and matter, lensing, intergalactic medium |
| Amber Miller | Assoc. Professor | amber @ astro | early universe, cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization anisotropy, primary and secondary anisotropy |
| Caleb Scharf | Assoc. Res. Scientist, Adj. Asst. Prof. |
caleb @ astro | Warm/hot intergalactic medium/missing baryons; Structure formation |
| Daniel Wolf Savin | Research Scientist | savin @ astro | laboratory measurements of early Universe chemistry, laboratory measurements of atomic processes for modeling the IGM |
| Pier-Stefano Corasaniti | Post-doc | pierste @ astro | Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Dark Energy, Scalar Field Cosmology and Data Analysis |
| Stuart Gill | Post-doc | sgill @ astro | cosmological simulations |
| M. K. Ryan Joung | Graduate Student | moo @ astro | hydrodynamic simulation of galactic outflows |
| Benjamin Johnson | Graduate Student | bjohnson @ astro | photometric identification of Type Ia supernovae for cosmology, low redshift IGM and `missing' baryons |
| Dave Spiegel | Graduate Student | dave @ astro | search for X-ray emission and absorption by hot gas in cosmic filaments |
| Mark Dijkstra | Graduate Student | mark @ astro | what were first sources of light, and what are their observational signatures |
| Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud | Graduate Student | britt @ phys | Cosmic microwave background experiment |
| Anthony Mroczkowski | Graduate Student | tony @ astro | SZ Survey: cluster formation history and determining cosmological |
| Pietro Reviglio | Graduate Student | reviglio @ astro | Correlation between star-formation and AGN activity and the large-scale enviroments; multiwavelength study of redshift surveys (15R,2dF,SDSS) |
| Antara Basu-Zych | Graduate Student | antara @ astro | Cluster formation/evolution, Lyman Alpha Blobs |
| Andrei Mesinger | Graduate Student | mesinger @ astro | structure formation; cosmological HII regions; reionization; high-redshift black holes |
| Stephen Muchovej | Graduate Student | stephen @ astro | CMB polarization experiments |
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Theoretical Astrophysics | |||
| Name | Title | Contact Info | Research |
| Edward A. Spiegel | Professor | eas @ astro | astrophysical fluid dynamics, photofluiddynamics |
| Zoltan Haiman | Asst. Professor | zoltan @ astro | early universe astro-chemistry, primordial gas thermodynamics, galaxy formation, chemical enrichment and ionization of the intergalactic medium |
| Mordecai-Mark Mac Low | Adj. Assoc. Professor | mordecai @ amnh.org | computational modeling, compressible (sometimes non-ideal) MHD and gas dynamics, turbulence in the ISM and star forming regions |
| Greg Bryan | Asst. Professor | gbryan @ astro | hydrodynamics, numerical simulation |
| Lam Hui | Assoc. Professor | lhui @ astro | inflation, early universe physics, large scale structure, dark energy and matter, lensing, intergalactic medium, extrasolar planets |
| Philip Yecko | Asst. Professor | phil @ astro | fluid mechanics and stability theory, rotating flows, viscous and density stratified shear, dynamics of interfaces, droplet formation, surfactant effects; applied mathematical and computational methods |
| Kristen Menou | Asst. Professor | kristen @ astro | Extrasolar planets: migration, atmosphere and internal structure, habitability |
| Daniel Wolf Savin | Research Scientist | savin @ astro | investigations into how understanding of astrophysics is limited by uncertainties in atomic physics |
| Yuexing Li | Graduate Student | yuexing @ amnh.org | ISM and Star Formation - numerical simulations of formation of stars and star clusters in molecular clouds, star formation in both isolated and interacting galaxies |
| Stuart Gill | Post-doc | sgill @ astro | cosmological simulations, scientific visualizations |
| M. K. Ryan Joung | Graduate Student | moo @ astro | modeling physical processes in protoplanetary disks; hydrodynamic simulation of supernova explosions in the ISM |
| Mark Dijkstra | Graduate Student | mark @ astro | how did (the first) galaxies form, what will they look like in deeper images |
| Andrei Mesinger | Graduate Student | mesinger @ astro | structure formation; cosmological HII regions; reionization; high-redshift black holes |
| Zuhngwhi Uhm | Graduate Student | zuhngwhi @ phys | gamma ray bursts |
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Laboratory Astrophysics | |||
| Name | Title | Contact Info | Research |
| Daniel Wolf Savin | Research Scientist | savin @ astro | measurements and calculations of various atomic processes for modeling solar and cosmics plasmas |
| Michael Schnell | Post-doc | schnell @ astro | experimental plasma physics with storage rings, single pass merged beams, and ion traps |
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Telescopes and Instrumentation | |||
| Name | Title | Contact Info | Research |
| Joe Patterson | Professor | jop @ astro | Global Networking of Telescopes |
| Arlin Crotts | Professor | arlin @ astro | constructed wide-field CCD imager; large liquid-mirror telescopes and their uses in surveys |
| Elena Aprile | Professor | age @ astro | LXeGRIT, XENON, novel instrumentation |
| Frits Paerels | Assoc. Professor | frits @ astro | X-ray instrumentation; spectrometers; diffraction gratings |
| Reshmi Mukherjee | Assoc. Professor | muk @ astro | high energy gamma-ray telescopes, ground-based gamma-ray astronomy with Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (ACTs) - such as STACEE and VERITAS |
| David Schiminovich | Asst. Professor | ds @ astro | GALEX, FIREBALL, novel instrumentation |
| Szabolcs Marka | Asst. Professor | smarka @ phys | Experimental gravitational wave detection; Gravitational wave seraches in collaboration with electromagnetic and neutrino detectors; LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Advanced LIGO |
| Ben Oppenheimer | Adj. Asst. Professor | bro @ amnh.org | high dynamic range imaging, adaptive optics, coronagraphy, integral field spectroscopy |
| Amber Miller | Assoc. Professor | amber @ astro | Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA) - SZE in galaxy clusters; Q U Imaging Experiment (QUIET) - CMB polarization anisotropy; Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) - SZE in galaxy clusters, small-scale primary and secondary CMB anisotropies |
| Jason Koglin | Research Scientist | koglin @ astro | Dark matter -- Search for evidence of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS) using a space based antiparticle detector. |
| David Windt | Research Scientist | windt @ astro | *high-resolution X-ray imaging and spectroscopy- NuStar, HEFT, Con-X, Solar-B/EIS, SDO/AIA, SOLO missions; *X-ray interferometry- MAXIM project, diffraction-limited soft X-ray telescopes; *multilayer X-ray optics- developing new multilayer optics that work from the EUV to the hard X-ray |
| Marc Audard | Post-doc | audard @ astro | XMM-Newton RGS calibration; X-ray data analysis |
| Fredrik Eriksson | Post-doc | fredrik @ astro | multilayer X-ray optics - growth and characterization of multilayers and superlattices for the EUV and x-ray region |
| Masaki Yamashita | Post-doc | yamashita @ astro | dark matter search, WIMP |
| Pawel Majewski | Post-doc | majewski @ astro | radiation detectors, dark matter search |
| Sharmila Kamat | Post-doc | sharmila @ astro | direct detection of WIMP Dark Matter using particle detectors |
| Benjamin Johnson | Graduate Student | bjohnson @ astro | liquid mercury telescopes, specifically the LZT |
| Anthony Mroczkowski | Graduate Student | tony @ astro | building the SZA, a microwave/mm array optimized for imaging with the SZE |
| Haitao Yu | Graduate Student | htyu @ phys | GAPS project (Gaseous AntiParticle Spectrometer) - indirect searching of dark matter |
| James Chonko | Graduate Student | chonko @ phys | HEFT (High Energy Focusing Telescope) - a high resolution telescope on hard X-ray to soft gamma ray band |
| Sarah Tuttle | Graduate Student | sarah @ astro | FIREBALL: Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon |
| Stephen Muchovej | Graduate Student | stephen @ astro | receiver development and testing, particularly superheterodyne systems for SZA (also working on bolometer receivers) |